[PATCHv6 05/13] lib/decompress: Keep decompressor when CONFIG_KEEP_DECOMPRESSOR
Pingfan Liu
piliu at redhat.com
Sun Jan 18 19:24:16 PST 2026
The KEXE PE format parser needs the kernel built-in decompressor to
decompress the kernel image. So moving the decompressor out of __init
sections.
Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu at redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
To: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
---
include/linux/decompress/mm.h | 8 ++++++++
lib/Kconfig | 6 ++++++
lib/decompress.c | 6 +++---
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/decompress/mm.h b/include/linux/decompress/mm.h
index ac862422df158..39df02bcbc661 100644
--- a/include/linux/decompress/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/decompress/mm.h
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ MALLOC_VISIBLE void free(void *where)
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <generated/autoconf.h>
/* Use defines rather than static inline in order to avoid spurious
* warnings when not needed (indeed large_malloc / large_free are not
@@ -92,7 +93,14 @@ MALLOC_VISIBLE void free(void *where)
#define large_malloc(a) vmalloc(a)
#define large_free(a) vfree(a)
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEEP_DECOMPRESSOR
+#define INIT
+#define INITCONST
+#else
#define INIT __init
+#define INITCONST __initconst
+#endif
+
#define STATIC
#include <linux/init.h>
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
index 2923924bea78c..4424ae14dcf12 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig
+++ b/lib/Kconfig
@@ -165,6 +165,12 @@ config RANDOM32_SELFTEST
#
# compression support is select'ed if needed
#
+config KEEP_DECOMPRESSOR
+ bool "keeps the decompress routines after kernel initialization"
+ default n
+ help
+ This option keeps the decompress routines after kernel initialization
+
config 842_COMPRESS
select CRC32
tristate
diff --git a/lib/decompress.c b/lib/decompress.c
index 7785471586c62..29d4c749f1fc4 100644
--- a/lib/decompress.c
+++ b/lib/decompress.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
*/
#include <linux/decompress/generic.h>
-
+#include <linux/decompress/mm.h>
#include <linux/decompress/bunzip2.h>
#include <linux/decompress/unlzma.h>
#include <linux/decompress/unxz.h>
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ struct compress_format {
decompress_fn decompressor;
};
-static const struct compress_format compressed_formats[] __initconst = {
+static const struct compress_format compressed_formats[] INITCONST = {
{ .magic = {0x1f, 0x8b}, .name = "gzip", .decompressor = gunzip },
{ .magic = {0x1f, 0x9e}, .name = "gzip", .decompressor = gunzip },
{ .magic = {0x42, 0x5a}, .name = "bzip2", .decompressor = bunzip2 },
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static const struct compress_format compressed_formats[] __initconst = {
{ /* sentinel */ }
};
-decompress_fn __init decompress_method(const unsigned char *inbuf, long len,
+decompress_fn INIT decompress_method(const unsigned char *inbuf, long len,
const char **name)
{
const struct compress_format *cf;
--
2.49.0
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